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Brian, thanks for that. I don't watch television so probably wouldn't have come across that show otherwise.
Much of what is in that presentation is not new but it does tie things together nicely given the time limitations imposed by the medium, and with less pomposity than a few other theories that I've looked at.
Having spent a good deal of my life involved in the oil patch or building for it I've spent many an evening with geologists and even took a course in it just out of interest.
Perhaps as a function of age I don't like waste and have always looked for more efficient ways to get things done. Using oil, or for that matter coal, to generate electricity has long seemed the height of idiocy to me. There are better ways to accomplish that task and as wind, solar and other technologies are finally being developed and utilised properly that whole segment is starting to make more sense.
I'll leave Peak Oil alone since that seems to be tied in to a mind lock. Last time I sat in on a meeting with a few true believers and mentioned Bakken and a few other fields under development they just got ticked off. What the actual reserves are is not really the important issue from my point of view.
Without turning this in to more of an epistle than it already is I'll get to my point. Using non-renewables where unnecessary makes no sense. Using the non-renewables in the ways that are the most efficient and only in those applications where energy density is a requirement is the way to go. Fortunately the price of a barrel of oil is rising and forcing that realisation upon more and more of us. Still a way to go until 300 a barrel at which point continental electric grids, using renewable sources, will be the only way out for stationary energy requirements.
I'd really like to live long enough to see what processes we develop for the little bit of carbon in that show to experience as it cycles through.
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